Red Oak Recovery
Asheville, NC

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Red Oak Recovery
Expands Expressive
Arts Therapy Program

Red Oak Recovery has expanded their expressive arts therapy program as an additional means to reach their clients through experiential education. Expressive arts allow for multiples avenues of creative expression, imagination, active participation, and mind-body connection where clients can take a closer look at their feelings, emotions, and thought processes.

Red Oak Recovery includes varies activities in their expressive arts therapy program, such as music, writing, drawing, dance, psychodrama, horticulture, poetry, painting, and dramatic arts. By including other ways to explore responses and reactions via artistic processes, clients often find opportunity for deeper exploration for growth, development, and healing. It can also help bridge the gap between the unconscious and conscious mind by placing the primary focus on the process and letting yourself get lost in the creative flow.

Sarah Kim Wilde, one of the expressive arts facilitators at Red Oak Recovery, explains "Expressive arts encourages honest self-expression and often allows for the exploration of difficult emotions that traditional talk therapy may not evoke. It can also provide an outlet for positive emotions and help bring about focus and appreciation on all of the good there is in life." Sarah Kim holds a Masters in Musical Theater with a minor in directing from The Boston Conservatory. She is a skilled performer and singer with both regional and national experience.

To learn more about Red Oak Recovery, please visit www.redoakrecovery.com or reach out to Mark Oerther.

Red Oak Recovery is an owner-operated program located in the pristine Blue Ridge Mountains, just north of Asheville N.C. and is the result of extensive experience and research for developing highly effective programming to create a foundation of long-term recovery for young adults.